How many articles have jumped
out of your computer display screen and grabbed your attention screaming:
“America is a police state?” Did you believe
those accounts, or did you rely rather on the lay back style of Rush Limbaugh
who “doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories?” Have you
been comforted by FOXNews and accepted the way laws have radically changed,
as have the attitudes towards US displayed by our government bureaus and
police?

Have you accepted the “just
routine” explanations from police at road stops and checkpoints
where you are assumed guilty of either drunk driving or some other crime
such as failing to have a current validated government form in your wallet
or affixed to your windshield? The general public is now generally guilty
of any and all crimes until proven innocent. And all of US have no one
else to blame but ourselves for allowing whining, wailing, hand-wrenching
Mommies Against This, That and Whatever that started US down this police
state path.

Because of the failure of
a segment of American government in keeping a reckless drunk from behind
the wheel by simply keeping him incarcerated forrepeat DWI offenses, the
drunk killed a woman’s daughter, and she becamejustifiably outraged
at our entire society. This outrage leads to activism, personified by
such as Carolyn McCarthy, Sarah Brady, and the Million Mommies Against
This, That and Whatever. A new industry for America’s most important
product, namely “make work,” has been created for the Trial
Lawyers Association; hence, DWI checkpoints and road stops. They are constitutionally
illegal, yet sanctioned by the huge make work fees earned by lawyers via
these unconscionable and unconstitutional statutory laws.

Such bending of the nation’s
rule of law that had formerly ensured the supremacy of individual rights
started with all the organizations mobilized against firearms ownership,
and the NRA correctly predicted where all this was going. Once government
got their foot in the door, government would do what it always does best,
no matter where in the world it is established: grow itself into a freedom-crushing
monster.

In New York City, one hit
and run driver had received 99 traffic violations – 99! Why wasn’t
this filth bag in the slammer where he couldn’t hurt anyone? The
young mother he hit died, so now we, the law-abiding, who sip a glass
of wine or have a beer with dinner at a restaurant, are subject to gunpoint
arrest, handcuffing, incarceration, and the confiscation of our automobile.
And this is happening on an increasing basis!

But how many lives were saved?
But how many more would have been saved if people who are guilty of injuring
others in society served the appropriate amount of time behind bars, instead
of driving around with all those violations. Think of Congressman Janklow
– he finally got to kill someone, but many hundreds of illegal drug
users who have harmed no one are in jail under mandatory drug sentencing.
Janklow is out, and Martha Stewart, who committed the crime of “lying”
to a government bureaucrat while not even under oath in a court of law,
and having harmed no one, now faces incarceration. This is justice?

In New Jersey, a motor vehicle
clerk was arrested and handcuffed for using the “n” word during
an argument with a motorist. What about “sticks and stones?”
Our laws are now so over the top; and if simple laws like these threaten
our freedom, just imagine what Slick Willie’s Patriot Act, placed
into law by Bush, Ashcroft and the Republican Party, and not even read
by our Congress of Criminals, will do! How much fun will government machine-gun-toting
jackbooted and steel pot-wearing goons have with that?

In the entire Congress of
Criminals, populated by such killers as Janklow and Teddy Kennedy, and
others of highly questionable morals, one lone voice in the wilderness
stands out: America’s one and only true representative of the people:
Libertarian republican Congressman Ron Paul. Can you hear him now? No?
Then read him at: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2004/tst080904.htm

Fed up with the Bush police
state? Fed up with the feds? Fed up with BOTH the Democratic AND the Republican
parties? Good…. good! “I can feel your anger!”

But Lang, what the hell are
we supposed to do? That’s another column, but here’s a start.
Vote for either the Libertarian Candidate, or the Constitution Party candidate.
Either Kerry or Bush will continue the police state, and you as an American
will continue to lose. Next, write to your
LOWEST level of government, and work up after you get a response.
People are doing this all across the country, and the movement is growing.

Look around! Can you see
them now? Jackbooted machine-gun-toting Darth Vader storm troopers, free
speech zones, chain-link fences and razor wire, police road blocks and
checkpoints, Washington DC strangling on them all. Are you finally convinced
where this will all lead, and where it has already taken US? Have we arrived?
And the war on terror will be forever? Hmmmm. BTW: Where are your papers
citizen?

Good…. good! “I
can feel your anger!”

Ted
Lang is a political analyst and a freelance writer and maintains a website
at www.tedlang.com